Improvement in devices for tethering animals



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

WARREN JOHNSON, OF FISHERVILLE, NEW HAMPSHTRE, ASSTGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDALBERT THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR TETHERING ANIMALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,681, dated August29, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.- arm, T, so applied to the post as to becapable Be it known that I, WARREN JOHNSON, ot' of being revolved in acircle thereon without Fisherville, in the county .of Merrimack andbeing disconnected therefrom.

State of New Hampshire, have made a new and The tethering pole or leverO is suspended useful Invention or Improvementtor Tetliering from theswiveling arm T by means of a ring, Animals; and I do hereby declare thesame to a, and a staple, b. The ring goes through the be fully describedin the following specification staple and an eye, c, made in the arm,the staple and represented in the accompanying drawbeing driven into thelever O.

ings, ot' whicli An overbalancing-weight, D, is suspended Fi ure l is anelevation and Fie. 2 a vertifrom the longer end ot' the ole or leveratethv l 7 E! D I 9 cal section, ot my tethering apparatus. ering-rope,E, being fastened to the other or The invention in question is animprovement lesser end ofthe said lever. The weight should withreference to that patented by Moses Johnbe sutticiently heavy to raiseor pull the lever, son in Letters Patent No. 40,755, and dated with thetethering line or rope attached to it, December l, 1863, the improvementconsistinto, or about into, an upright position. ing in a rotary swivel,a stationary cap or post, As the animal attached to the tetheringropeand means ot' fastening it (the latter) to the may move around thesupporting-bar the post sustaining-bar, the object of my improvement Awill be stationary thereon, the swiveling being to prevent the detachingof the post arm at the head of the post allowing the lever from thesustaining-bar by the animal in case to play around the post. As theanimal may of the bar being pulled over into an inclined more or lessmove away from the post he will position. The said Moses Johnson employsdepress the lever, and as he may approach the for supporting his pole orlever on the said post the lever will rise toward an upright posibar,which is driven into the earth, a post havtion, the weight and the leverco-operating to ing a hole bored axially in it to receive the so controlthe rope as to keep it elevated and bar. ln case the bar may becomeinclined, as out ot' the way ot' the animal or its legs. frequentlyhappens, owing to the force exerted With the improved tetheringapparatus it upon it by the tethered animal, the post will will beimpossible for the animal to wind the be likely to be pulled oli' thebar, and, furtherrope about the supporting-bar. more, the animal, byrubbing against the post, l do not claim a tethering apparatus cousistashe will at times, is liable to disconnect it ing ofthe rope, the lever,and the post, made from the bar. With inyiuvention the post can andapplied together as represented iu the be rinly fastened to the bar, andthe swivel aforesaid patent. will turn freely in the head ot' the post,and is Vhat I claim as my invention isiso applied thereto as to renderit impossible The improvement described, it consisting ot' for theanimal to detach it theiefrom. the rotary swivel or arm T, thestationary cap In the drawings, A denotes the post, which or post A, andthe set-screw S, or equivalent Y is bored axially, so as to receive andencoinmeans ot' fastening the post to the supportingpass an arm,rod, orbar, B, which is to project bar, the pole being applied to the said arm,vertically from the ground at or near the cenand the whole beingarranged 'in manner and tral part of the space on which it may be desoas to operate substantially as hereinbei'orc sirable to allow an animalto graze. This post specilied. A is provided with a set-screw, S, whichscrews laterally into it and against the supportingi bar, and serves totix the post firmly thereto. i At the headoic the post there is a swivelor WARREN JOHNSON.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, J r.

